The Yellow Wallpaper - Media Adaptations

Media Adaptations

• A version of it was performed twice on the radio program Suspense by Agnes Moorehead.
• In 1977, Marie Ashton through Women Make Movies produced a short film adaptation.
• In 1989, the novel was adapted into a film produced by the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) for "Masterpiece Theatre". It was adapted by Maggie Wadey and directed by John Clive.
• In 1989, an episode of The Twilight Zone featured a variation on Gilman's story titled "Something in the Walls". In the episode, a woman commits herself to a mental institution, and insists on plain white walls and no patterns within her hospital room, after having seen faces in the patterns of her bedroom's yellow wallpaper, and hearing ominous voices from those faces.
• An audio book of "The Yellow Wallpaper" additionally was produced by Durkin Hayes, and read by Win Phillips in 1997. This Radio Tales version can also be heard on Sonic Theater on XM Radio.
• Painter Jonathan Sutton completed two pieces, in 1999 and 2000, respectively, referencing specific points in the story, titled "The Yellow Wallpaper I: I always lock the door when I creep by daylight", and "The Yellow Wallpaper II: I quite enjoy the room now it is bare again".
• An adaptation of the original short story was scripted and directed by Heather Newman as part of the 2003 season at Theater Schmeater in Seattle, Washington. The production starred Mary Jane Gibson as Charlotte, Stephen Loch as John, Annie Lareau as Jennie, Lisa Viertel as Mary, Erin Knight as Lucy and Jim Catechi as Dr. Weir Mitchell. This adaptation won the 2003 Seattle Times "Best of the Fringe" award. The adaptation also was produced in 2005 at Tarrant County College by Doctor Judith Gallagher, directed by Melinda Benton-Muller with Kami Rogers as Charlotte. In May 2010, Heather Newman, Melinda Benton-Muller, and Doctor Judith Gallagher spoke on a panel about this adaptation at the –American Literature Association with members of the ALA and Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society. Kami Rogers moderated the panel.
• A one-hour, one-woman stage adaptation, written by Greg Oliver Bodine. The play received its world premiere production in NYC at Manhattan Theatre Source in March 2009 before it toured metro-area libraries and other venues, including Lycoming College in PA, where it was curated by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Originally co-produced by the Manhattan Theatre Source Playground Development Series and North Shore Theatre Group. Directed by DeLisa M. White and performed by Annalisa Loeffler. Published by Indie Theater Now in 2012.
• BBC Radio dramatized the story for the series "Fear on Four".
• A stage adaptation was performed at the 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
• Song "Yellow Creep Around" on the Mary's Danish album Circa, published one century after the original.
• An adaptation of the original short story was scripted and directed by Sarah Elaine Stewart in 2008. “The Yellow Wallpaper” has been performed at The Courtyard Theatre, Hoxton, July 2008, The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, August 2008, Midnight Matinees at the Tristan Bates Theatre, Covent Garden, December 2008. A revised version was performed at the New Wimbledon Theatre Studio, March 2009. Written and directed by Sarah Elaine Stewart, costumes by Lauren McCarthy, sound by Joseph Olney, Charlotte played by Emmeline Creswell, John played by Thomas Kirkin, the Woman in the Wallpaper played by Joanne Clarke, Jennie played by Emma-Rachel Blackman (Courtyard, Edinburgh, Bates) and Tara Quinn (Wimbledon)
• ShadyJane Theatre Company performed their adaptation, "Her Yellow Wallpaper" at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2009.
• The Yellow Wallpaper, a 2011 gothic thriller film
• Then This Theatre presented "The Yellow Wallpaper," performed by Maeve Fitzgerald and directed by Aoife Spillane-Hinks, at the 2011 Dublin Fringe Festival
• 19 Nocturne Boulevard's Julie Hoverson performed a one-woman reading for their podcast.